Rabbit's kick landed squarely on Faust's face, sending a wad of silver liquid spraying from his mouth and nose, along with two silver teeth.

More than the physical pain, Faust was concerned about the confusion in his heart—why?

"Cough...spit..." Faust spat out the blood in his mouth, his eyes wide, and said to Feng Bujue in astonishment, "This...what's going on? You clearly just put them..."

"That was all for your benefit, of course," Feng Bujue said.

"Impossible, Rabbit's illusions, I..." Faust only said half a sentence.

Rabbit interrupted, "That was the real body." It rubbed its paws on the ground and said, "I know you can tell the difference between illusionary people and real people, but you've never seen me use a localized illusion on a real person, have you?"

As Rabbit spoke, it made a gesture of slitting its throat with its rabbit paw. A gaping bloody wound immediately appeared on its neck, and blood flowed down like a waterfall. "If you want to see it, I can even perform the illusion of tearing out my heart." Before it finished speaking, the scene it created vanished into thin air. The wound and bloodstains disappeared without a trace. "What you just saw...was just a harmless bullet flying towards my face, and I immediately created the illusion of my head being blown apart. Billy's 'injury' was the same."

"One of your mistakes was being overly confident in your Mud Puppet tricks. Every time you easily let this Mud Puppet be killed by them, so you only had a rough understanding of their three abilities," Feng Bujue continued. "If you had been more careful in those remote-controlled Mud Puppet battles in the past, instead of just trying to get it over with, you would have been able to grasp more information about these three prisoners...especially the details and changes in their abilities during combat."

"This is all your own fault," Billy also said at this time. "After we were deceived by your tricks several times, you revealed the so-called 'curse of the Lord of Time.' Since then, you've seemed more casual about our escape attempts, often resisting symbolically and being easily killed." He paused. "I also suspected why your strength as the new warden was so different from Samodir's, but unfortunately I was still deceived by your curse..."

Faust said, "You...you had already meticulously arranged this scam before entering?"

"It's not really meticulously planned," Feng Bujue said in a relaxed tone. "This isn't a particularly complicated performance either. I just made this suggestion with a 'try it and see' attitude. As it turns out, I guessed right. Of course, even if I didn't guess right, we wouldn't have lost anything, it would just be a performance for nothing. If everything were as you said, they'd come back in a moment, give me the gun, and then I'd kill you."

...

Ten minutes ago...

Feng Bujue glanced at the three people beside him, shrugged, and walked forward.

He took a few steps to the prison gate, his hand already on the doorknob, but he suddenly stopped just as he was about to push the door open.

He froze there, lost in thought.

"Hey! What's wrong again? Will you ever be done?" Rabbit shouted.

"Something's not right..." Something flashed in Feng Bujue's eyes. "You've been deceived!"

"What? Don't tell me you want to take the reward and..." Rabbit's voice rose.

"Shut up." Billy stopped it, then continued in a probing tone, "He means something else."

Feng Bujue released the doorknob, turned around, and returned to the large desk. "The 'reincarnation' you mentioned may indeed be possible, but it's triggered every time Faust is 'killed.' There's a problem with that..."

"Gaining the ability to resurrect infinitely in a specific space is a very normal thing, even you can..." Alden said.

"I'm not saying there's a problem with the fact that he can resurrect," Feng Bujue interrupted, denying it. "If it was a curse cast by the Lord of Time, why didn't he set the effect to trigger reincarnation as soon as any one of you three discovered and walked out of that door?" He glanced at the three of them. "That might have even caused infighting among you." He pointed to the door. "Why did he set it to trigger reincarnation when Faust is killed?"

"When the warden is alive, he relies on the warden to guard the prisoners. When the warden dies, reincarnation is triggered. Isn't that reasonable?" Alden retorted.

"Ha!" Feng Bujue laughed. "If that warden is stronger than you, of course it's reasonable." He turned to look at Billy. "But the actual situation is that Billy alone has the ability to kill Faust. If you two join forces, I think it's a sure thing, right..."

Billy said, "You mean..."

"The one who told you about this reincarnation theory was Faust himself, right?" Feng Bujue asked.

"Yes, it was him," Billy replied.

"Before Faust became your warden, did you know anything about his strength?" Feng Bujue asked again. "How does he compare to Samodir?"

"Although we haven't fought before, it's well known that Faust is the strongest after the 'Twelve Hour Officers'," Billy thought for a moment and said. "Samodir...was originally ranked tenth among the 'Twelve Hour Officers.' When he was guarding the prison...there were no monsters, and there was no reincarnation. The three of us stayed in small cells. Resistance was impossible. Even if we joined forces and relied on sneak attacks, we couldn't compete with Samodir."

"Hmm..." Feng Bujue crossed his arms in front of his chest and nodded. "That settles it then...if the person the Lord of Time sent to replace the warden's job can't do the job at all, why would he send him? Wouldn't it be enough to just cast a curse?" He raised his head. "Since Faust came, it means the Lord of Time recognized that he had the ability to keep you in check. It's just that...Faust's way of guarding you doesn't purely rely on strength. He has his own methods..."

Feng Bujue curled his lips. "Besides...does that kind of curse really exist? From the perspective of a visitor from another world like me, if it really existed, the Lord of Time would just put a highly aggressive pig at the door. Why bother with a guard?"

"So!" Feng Bujue raised a finger. "I think the curse thing is made up by Faust."

"Then why..." Rabbit wanted to ask a question.

In order to save time, Feng Bujue directly said, "I have a plan. Listen to it."

...

Back to the present, less than ten minutes remained before Feng Bujue's poison took effect.

"Of course, I also have some selfish motives," Feng Bujue continued to say to Faust. "Although I think the remaining bottle of potion should be with you, I'm not sure at all whether I'll get the item after killing you...therefore, I have to think of a proper way to trick you into giving me that bottle of potion.

"The possibility of negotiating with you is very low. You yourself said that, according to your deduction, when I open the prison door and come here, I must be in an antagonistic state with you. Your deduction is correct, but if I foresee it in advance, it can be used by me.

"I've already learned a lot of information from Billy and the others. I know that when you obtained the potion, you already grasped my information and would use it to speculate about my strength and actions. Since you've already determined that I'll cooperate with the three of them, I'll put on an act of betrayal in front of you to subvert your views.

"What you see with your own eyes is more persuasive than any language. So after the surprise attack with the gun, I also used a technique of the level of [Evil King's Flame Kill Black Dragon Wave].

"At that time, Billy's gunshot wound was just a feint. He was actually in perfect condition. And we had all discussed it in advance that if I successfully used it, he would take the hit, and then cooperate with the black flames and the illusion to escape.

"And Alden's last few words were subtly meant to make you feel that my betrayal was unexpected and real.

"Sure enough, this lavish performance worked. Seeing Alden retreat, you had no choice but to believe that all of this was true.

"Therefore, after Alden retreated back into the door, you lowered your guard, gave me the potion, and proudly appeared in front of me with your real body. Because you couldn't wait to share your brilliant trick with me, someone who was in the same camp as you and who would never be able to come here again to leak the secret. After all, you've been using this trick to deceive them for so long. If you didn't find someone to brag about it, wouldn't it be casting pearls before swine?"

Faust's face showed a fierce look. "Tch...aren't you doing the same thing now?"

"That's different. You want to show off," Feng Bujue laughed. "And I'm just providing end-of-life care, so you don't die without understanding." As he said that, he used the [Antidote]. A system prompt immediately sounded:

[Current mission completed, main mission has been fully completed]

[You have completed this scenario and will be automatically teleported in 60 seconds]

"He's right," Alden leaned close to Faust's ear and said grimly, "You're dead, and I guarantee that before you die, you'll fully experience what 'terror' is."

Rabbit was also grinding its teeth and claws beside him, looking like it was about to practice rabbit boxing.

Faust also knew that he would die here. He glared at Feng Bujue with resentment and said, "Why are you helping them? Do you know the price of being an enemy of the Lord of Time?"

"I also have a question." Billy actually turned to Feng Bujue at this time and said, "Why didn't you defect?" He said in a deep voice, "If, more than ten minutes ago, you had chosen to push the door open and come in directly, instead of discussing it with us beforehand...I think you would have succeeded as well. The result of a sudden defection wouldn't have been much different from what we acted out. For you, that would have also allowed you to clear the scenario, wouldn't it? And it would have saved you the trouble of becoming enemies with the Lord of Time."

"Hehe..." Feng Bujue laughed. "Regarding the matter of becoming enemies, I've considered it...if you don't say it, and I don't say it, who will know that this prison break was related to me?" He spread his hands. "I'm just a traveler from another world, an insignificant little person. You kill Faust, and then run away. If no one leaks the news, it's like it never involved me."

Feng Bujue said in a relaxed tone, "Speaking of which...what did I do? It wasn't me who caught Faust, and I didn't kill him either. It wasn't my business in the first place, right?" He actually tried to clear things up with a few words, shamelessly, "As for why I wanted to help you, I already explained it..." The corners of his mouth curled into a smile, a kind of madness in that smile. "I wasn't exactly on the side of order."